F.1 Starting Admintool

This section shows basic information about starting Admintool, and specific
information that might help when using Admintool to manage hosts, printers,
and serial ports.

The first task you do with Admintool is to make yourself a member of
the UNIX sysadmin group (also called group 14, because the sysadmin group
by default has 14 as its group ID number). Once you are a member of the sysadmin
group, you can log in as your normal user account--instead of having
to log in as root--to perform local system management tasks with Admintool.

Unless you are a member of the special UNIX sysadmin group (GID 14),
you must become root on your system to use Admintool. Root is a system user
with special permission to modify system files.

Use the su command to become root:

$ su
Password: (enter the root password here)#

If the root account is password protected, you need to know the root
password. If the root account is not password protected, you can simply press
Return at the Password prompt. If you do not know the root password for your
system, contact a system administrator at your site for help.